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Right? They love coming over here to reassure themselves they're not murderers.
It's easier for them to shit on vegans than to admit to themselves that they are causing mass suffering
Anyone who eats meat is a murderer. I eat meat but only what's hunted myself so I can be sure that animal wasn't raised to die or all the other animal rights violations that come with the farming industry. I wouldn't mind being hunted by a human or a bear aslong as I had a decent life and was able to experience things like freedom and they didn't use any tools that I consider to be unfair like guns (knives and bows are okay but I prefer handmaking them on site) so the argument of "but what if u were the animal" doesn't work for me because that's how I got to this position.
I'm writing this mainly cause I'm curious abt your thoughts on my position. Do u think I'm as bad as farm industry users because I don't mind eating meat, do u think I'm just a bit depressed and/or psychopathic because I wouldnt mind dying and killing or do u think my position is actually reasonable but its just not how u personally view the issue.
That's all you needed to say
I also have autism and have tried alot of vegan products. I'm not lying when I say I would starve if only given those to eat. Nuts do work for protein but I sorta binge eat them because they taste incredibly good and I think I developed a mild allergy so I don't wanna eat them too often in case it gets worse
there is other food than nuts which contains a lot of protein: https://imgur.com/mbEAg2g
I don't like most of the foods in the images. I have found another solution though, by grinding pumpkin seed and baking it into bread.
You're fine with hurting animals, you sound silly when you lie. Outsourcing the murder doesn't absolve you of guilt.
simply learn to cook. it's one trick that carnists hate.
Yes you're still bad because you could literally just eat beans but you go out and intentionally murder animals instead.
I have autism I couldn't eat beans
Edit: I've starved myself for weeks before on things like school trips simply because there wasn't any food I could eat so when I say couldn't I'm not exaggerating
Edit 2: I tried eating nuts for protein because I don't eat enough but I think I developed some form of allergy because I binge ate them because I liked them so much. I've tried other solutions just a heads up
What?
I have sensory issues. Autism is a sensory disability which can cause sensory overload from things like bright lights, loud sounds or even certain textures like baked beans. I literally cannot live a normal life and just do things like eat baked beans in the same way a depressed person can't just be happy
The only foods I've eaten in the past few weeks is bread sometimes I have it with tomato. I am an extremely picky eater and not by choice
Edit: I'm actually curious abt this because I struggle to believe someone doesn't know what autism is especially on lemmy but would u rather me starve because of a condition that I have no control over?
I know what autism is and I of course don't want you to starve, I just had no idea what you meant when you said that you couldn't eat beans because of it.
FWIW I don't like eating baked beans by themselves, either. Are you okay with beans as an ingredient, like in soup, chili, or burritos?
I don't like soup or chilli, I haven't tried burritos. I'd imagine I'd like just the bread bit and with tomatoes but the more ingredients added the less likely I'd be able to eat it. Tbh I don't like complex foods in general they "confuse" my taste buds if that makes sense. Adding food to mask the flavours and textures of another food is more likely to make me associate the liked food with the disliked food and begin disliking the previously liked one rather than make it tolerable
God isn't real and you don't need meat. The only argument is whether or not you're fine with murdering others for your taste pleasure. It's a yes or a no, very simple.
I just want to chime in and say it is interesting to find a hunter in every vegan thread like this, even though i have not met one irl (i guess because i live in a huge ass city).
also it's totally not scalable to our large populations. we need to find solutions that are good for the environment and also can be applied to everyone.
(yes, a very small minority of people can only eat meat)
I live in the countryside of a sparsely populated but very small country. I would imagine location is a fairly big factor
I think you're still murdering an animal who wanted to live his life just as much as anyone.
Well I wouldn't mind dying even by a human if it was in the same way I hunt. So r u telling me its fine? I'd very much doubt that's what u mean from the (perceived) tone, but ur acc words are saying that cause I did mention before I don't really mind dying like that yk it's fair and I had a chance to survive it's just natural selection at that point. I wouldn't enjoy it for sure and def not in the moment but I wouldn't care all that much either infact I'd probably prefer to be killed by an animal so that my body can be eaten and reused as fuel for plants and animals rather than wasted.
The problem is regardless of how or when you take an animal's life you're still taking an animal's life. You clearly view them as less than human instead of viewing them as having the same right to life as anyone/anything else.
You can and do choose to eat meat when it isn't required to sustain you.
I wouldn't mind dying under those circumstances. I'm treating the animal as I'd want to be treated myself. How am I viewing them as sub-human? I personally wouldn't kill even a consenting human because of laws but I'd rather eat consenting human meat assuming it was safe ans ethically sourced (e.g. not a company that gets you to sign a misleading agreement).
Edit: Infact when I die I want to be thrown in a forest and eaten by animals and absorbed by the ground though I imagine there's laws preventing this
You wouldn't kill a human because of laws? This implies you would kill humans if it weren't illegal...
I didn't think autism is your real problem... You might be a sociopath.
If they consented, sure. I wouldn't care abt someone killing me if I consented to the act and method and they didn't like manipulate into consenting.
Edit: I'd include depressed people as predatory like the way child sex is
Edit 2: I'd also feel emotions for sure but morally it's better than killing animals because Idk whether the animal consented so I'd push through it because its the better option even if it is harder
Man, listen... I mean what I'm about to say... You need to talk to a professional.
Do u normally armchair diagnose people because I'm curious abt whether you've thought abt the harmful effects of telling people "you don't have X, in reality you have Y" although I guess I wouldn't care abt harming people becsuse I'm a sociopath
Imma preface this by saying I'm talking abt a very small section of the population.
I don't think we could really get rid of meat eating entirely. I mean 100% all the people who do it because its the "best" source of protein or just because they prefer it over other things however there is actual medical conditions like arfid and autism that could cause people to have the only logical source of protein be meat. I myself am autistic and I try to avoid meat where I can because I wouldnt enjoy dying and know animals wouldnt however none of the other solutions ive tried could work long term hence why ive tried finding ways to minimise the harm. My diet is just overall very restrictive in the past few weeks ive basically just eaten various bread products sometimes plain sometimes with tomato. I'm not saying you are cause u honestly come off as quite civil but I've noticed a tendency for online vegans to get quite aggressive over the issue which feels (this is a very strong word but I can't think of a better one) almost ableistic to me as if some autistic people could never be morally correct. If u listened to the end of my wee rant, thank you.
Yea this is basically my current position on meat eating. In the most likely far future I'd probably rather animal farming everywhere to be banned however ud need to ensure the people who depend on it can still eat which could be hard to do in the present for various reasons. Same with hunting I'd prolly rather that be banned and have specialised dieticians for people with sensory issues who would be able to dedicate time to finding a food that works for people rather than the other person having to interrupt their life for it.